| Charles Harding Firth, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1915 - 228 σελίδες
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.'... | |
| Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 742 σελίδες
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not, for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.... | |
| 1921 - 874 σελίδες
...ripple of the burn. But Johnson found no pleasure in the place. "Before me," he wrote in his journal, "were high hills which by hindering the eye from ranging forced the mind to find entertainment for itself." The remainder of this portion of the Journal is in the same vein — the best that can be... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 σελίδες
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.... | |
| William Chase Greene - 1923 - 358 σελίδες
...humanism, like that of Samuel Johnson, who wrote in his Journal, of the Scotch Highlands, "Before me were high hills which by hindering the eye from ranging forced the mind to find entertainment for itself." Wordsworth wrote of his visit to these same Highlands, thirty years later, that his object... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 σελίδες
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, sileqge. and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself- Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.... | |
| Arthur McDowall - 1925 - 196 σελίδες
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not, for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.... | |
| Robert Anderson - 696 σελίδες
...calm, the air was soft ; and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here IJirst conceived the thoughts of this narration."... | |
| Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 σελίδες
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration"... | |
| Katie Trumpener - 1997 - 450 σελίδες
...was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. . . . [H]ere I first conceived the thought of this narration" (p. 40). If the Journey is framed... | |
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